Comments on: Energy and Architecture: How Green is Green?

By: lenz

lenz — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:50:37 +0000

architecture can do something about sustainability. but everyone in the architecture scene relies on technical solutions. the passive-house is nothing but a complicated well isolated house with a lot of technology in it. with clever facades, cool and well tempered zoning, passive solar energy using, shadow and sun, we can do a lot which is genuine architectural stuff. What i don’t like about that debate is: We all plan before we think…
we should read bucki fuller and find new styles which are clever and cool… that’s what i think.

By: raymond

raymond — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:01:48 +0000

don’t depend on technology to make the building green…

extremely i think don’t build at all…

By: panza

panza — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:16:58 +0000

I like BIG very much, and I know they did some Carbon neutral studies and are doing a carbon neutral island, but…This greenwash is really annoying. All this carbon neutrality etc. is about technology. this technology could be equipped to any building – so it really doesnt make an architecture better. it makes the building better, but not the best (the best enviromental solution is to NOT build at all).

It annoys me, all this “green wave” – OK, if we all believe taht it is good to have a passive house (which is), or neutral house (not necessarily) , then we should make it a technical norm. And not a PR – nice renders with a lot of greenery and nobody hesitates, because it is not Cool to blame a Passive house. It is like a new doctrine.

Passive building should be a standard, like toilettes and design for disabled – not a feature!

and btw – all that greenery needs so much water that it is not effective at all. just looks better in renders and makes it look “green”. Big makes so huge buildings that I really doubt about their efficiency. they are very effective in social and architectonic field, but energetic efficiency? – most effective shape is a box.

By: dA

dA — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:03:26 +0000

Yes. Please do elaborate.

By: Anik1

Anik1 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:47:18 +0000

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By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:42:05 +0000

Could you elaborate on how KTA is greenwash? The Sidwell Friends School is a very successful project in my opinion.

By: dropout

dropout — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:55:40 +0000

BIG, not BIB. It’s all greenwash by the way.

By: bukmacherskie

bukmacherskie — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:37:42 +0000

help a lot,that what im looking for,thanks

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小风子 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:54:34 +0000

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By: romeo

romeo — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:43:52 +0000

Two of the most self publicist architects either side of the Atlantic, with very little understanding or implementation of energy saving and ‘green’ materials to debate on energy saving measures? wow… BIB & Timberlake! More greenwash…

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Jeremiah Doornbos — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:42:55 +0000

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Architecture+Molding — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:19:44 +0000

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By: juanmolina

juanmolina — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:42:26 +0000

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Bocetos Digitales — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:41:47 +0000

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